[00:25.10]Reading the poets has been the dullest of things.
[00:28.78]Even reading the great novelists of the past, I said, "Tolstoy is supposed to be special?"
[00:36.26]I go to bed, I read War and Peace.
[00:39.80]I read it, I read it, I say, "Where is the specialist in War and Peace?"
[00:44.82]I really tried to understand.
[00:49.15]I mean, and then many of the great poets of the past, I've read their stuff.
[00:53.40]I've read it. All I get is a goddamn headache and boredom.
[00:58.30]I really feel sickness in the pit of my stomach,
[01:01.10]I say, "There's some trick going on here, this is not true, this is not real, it's not good."
[01:09.95]You see poetry itself contains as much energy as a Hollywood industry.
[01:18.52]As much energy as a stage play on Broadway.
[01:22.85]All it needs is practitioners who are alive to bring it alive.
[01:28.70]Poetry has always been said to be a private, hidden art.
[01:32.25]Not appreciated.
[01:34.15]The reason it's not appreciated is because it hasn't shown any guts, hasn't shown any dance, hasn't shown any moxie.
[01:44.95]Poetry is generally very dull, very pretensive.
[01:52.80]Uh, those who say the poet is very private and precious person, I don't agree with.
[02:01.30]Generally, he is just a dumb, fiddling asshole writing insecure lines that don't come through,
[02:10.10]Believing he's immortal, waiting for his immortality which never arrives.
[02:15.60]Because the poor ****** just can't write.
[02:19.70]Most poets, coets, whoets, carrots, can't even write a simple line.
[02:27.75]Like, "The dog walked down the street."
[02:31.50]Nothing should ever be done that should be done.
[02:34.60]It has to come out like a good hot beer ****.
[02:39.49]A good hot beer **** is glorious man.
[02:43.42]You get up, turn around, look at it and your proud.
[02:47.00]The fumes, the stink of the turd, you look, you say, "God, I did it. I'm good."
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